Moradabad: A team of doctors who rushed to quarantine the family members of two people who died due to coronavirus, has faced several injuries as the localities pelted stones on them. The team was not only pelted but also ambushed in ambulances.
Due to this, the team had to save their lives by running backward. The four policemen who accompanied him escaped leaving the health department team. It is also reportedly said that people who pelted the stone also took one of the doctors as a hostage.
When the information started spreading like a wildfire, the police force was sent to the area.
The team of Doctors faced major injuries and one of the doctor identified as Doctor HC Mishra and a technician suffered serious injuries. Dr. Sudhish Agrawal also faced serious injury.
Moradabad: Some people pelted stones at medical team&police which had gone to take a person possibly infected with #COVID."When our team boarded ambulance with patient,suddenly crowd emerged&started pelting stones.Some doctors are still there.We are injured,"says ambulance driver pic.twitter.com/Rpo5jDRuJY
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) April 15, 2020
The ambulance driver said that some people pelted stones at medical team&police which had gone to take a person possibly infected with coronavirus.”When our team boarded ambulance with patient, suddenly crowd emerged&started pelting stones. Some doctors are still there. We are injured
CM Yogi Adityanath posted a series of tweets on his social media handle and said that it is a crime to hurt the frontline health workers and strict action will be taken against those who were involved in this offense.
मुख्यमंत्री श्री @myogiadityanath जी ने मुरादाबाद में हुई घटना का संज्ञान लेते हुए कहा कि स्वास्थ्य विभाग के डॉक्टर्स व कर्मी सभी सफाई अभियान से जुड़े अधिकारी / कर्मचारी , सुरक्षा में लगे सभी पुलिस अधिकारी व पुलिस के कर्मी इस आपदा की घड़ी में दिन रात सेवा कार्य में जुटे हैं।
— CM Office, GoUP (@CMOfficeUP) April 15, 2020
दोषी व्यक्तियों द्वारा की गई राजकीय सम्पत्ति के नुकसान की भरपाई उनसे सख्ती से की जाएगी। जिला पुलिस प्रशासन ऐसे उपद्रवी तत्वों को तत्काल चिन्हित करें और प्रत्येक नागरिक को सुरक्षा के साथ ही उपद्रवी तत्वों पर पूरी सख्ती भी करें।
— CM Office, GoUP (@CMOfficeUP) April 15, 2020
